A few days ago I decided to give my site a complete redesign. I really wanted it to reflect my new brand and give it a modern and fresh feel. The old website was blocky, old and not following my brand strategy, (Which I will be doing a post on here later.) It’s really important to follow your brand, for sure. OK, So I was looking at the old site and checking out the features and really messing around with layout and just hated it. I didn’t like the layouts or the features. So I went to the best place for WordPress themes, which is ThemeForest.com. Themeforest is in my opinion the best place for really awesome themes. I took half a day to look through the books and see what theme would fit my needs. Which if you remember
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I wanted to share this blog post from Petapixel.com. They are a great bunch of dudes and write awesome stuff! I wanted to share this post because I believe it also. If you follow any part of the photographic blogosphere, you’ve heard folks repeat this mantra over and over and over again: “Gear doesn’t matter.” The basic premise of that dictum is as follows: making great pictures is about the photographer, not the camera or the lens or any other piece of gear. A good photographer can make a great image with a point-and-shoot that an amateur armed with a Nikon D4 and an 85mm f/1.4 lens can’t match. I’ve personally repeated the “It’s not the camera that takes the picture” mantra to new photographers myself because I know it to be true, and because it helps allay
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Recently I have been so busy with work as an EMT and working around my house and having my daughter with me at home, I keep putting taking photos aside. Then when I go to take photos, I don’t have any ideas of what to shoot! So today I have come up with a few ideas I wanted to give and try, and that might help you out. I was thinking of different subjects from colours to shapes. Then for some reason I thought about shooting doorknobs? Doorknobs, those little things we touch every day without even thinking about it. Think of different shapes – All kinds of shapes, squares, triangles. Try anything Different colors – I am planning on doing this my self. Picking one color and just shooting that colour. It will really get your creativity going!
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